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I just finished White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson. This isn’t the first book I’ve read about the history of systemic, anti-Black racism in the United States, but it is the most hard-hitting I’ve read so far.

Anderson refutes the conventional narrative of linear progress towards racial equality that most Americans, myself included, learned in school, in church, and at home. She does this by examining the state of civil rights from the end of the Civil War through the 2016 presidential election and illustrating how, at every turn, Black progress was treated as a threat to white supremacy and was met with outrage. This white rage dominates all branches of the American government, where official channels are used to punish Black progress. This white rage is the motivating force behind the gutting of the public education system, the war on drugs, and the far-right nationalist movement that got Trump elected.

This is one of the most well-researched books I’ve ever read. I actually finished it much faster than I expected to because I didn’t realize it had OVER 100 PAGES of citations, footnotes, and sources. Anderson’s argument may be hard for some readers to hear, but she has the evidence to back it up.

This is a hard book to read from a purely emotional and empathetic angle, because Anderson doesn’t shy away from the cruelty and violence America has inflicted on Black people. However, I really do think this is a book every white person should read. It comes as a much needed wake up call.

blackexcellence

Our favorite historian, Carol Anderson, dropped in to talk about anti-blackness, "being colorblind" and her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Get the book (here) — it's a great read!

Professor Anderson dropped some 💎gems💎! Oh, and before you leave don't forget to do your homework, Class. See you in the comments!

hauntedearth

tockthewatchdog

we need to give this tweet more credit for im pretty sure coining "die mad about it"

invertprivileges

checks out, thank you melanie

wilwheaton

\m/

retrogamingblog2

mysharona1987

“Nothing they do now is going to take back the years of work I had to put in.”

Yeah, influencer parents are the worst.

wilwheaton

As the adult child of a garbage mother who exploited him, stole his childhood from him, allowed him to be abused, and took as much of the money he was forced to work for as a child for herself as she could, I wish a very enthusiastic die in a fire to Claire's parents.

Children deserve to be children, and parents who force us to work for any reason are abusers.

ultrafacts

bogleech

THAT'S what happened?! All those comedy websites years ago all shifted to doing videos and lost all their money at once because just Facebook tricked them with inflated video views?!

guessed-starred-deactivated2025

what????? what is this about

ivie-online

- so between 2014-2016 facebook launches a massive ‘pivot to video’ campaign to draw media orgs to their video-based features. zuckerberg’s doing rounds, saying that in the near future, newsfeeds will mostly be video, and that video is the future of media. to back this up, they release tons of wild viewership metrics for ads on facebook, enticing advertisers to prioritize video, and as a result, the media that relies upon advertisers for funding began to do the same.

- this had an industry-wide impact, and media orgs, from established news, to humor websites, to smaller creators, fire writers and those primarily focused on print, and direct resources to their video creation efforts.

- around 2016, it’s revealed that facebook completely fabricated their original numbers, likely inflating them between 150-900%. additionally, their viewership metric considered 3 seconds of a person watching to be a ‘view’ (whereas youtube had a 30 second requirement for the same metric).

-Having totally restructured in order to pivot to facebook video, many media orgs were unable to recapture hard won (and and sometimes decades old) audiences. College Humor, Funny or Die, MTV News, Vice, Mic, and Vox were among those that were seriously impacted.

- after a 2018 class action lawsuit, facebook (who maintain that the whole ordeal was caused by a simple error in calculation) was made to pay 40 million in damages, which 1, is a paltry sum when we consider the 22 billion they made in profit that same year, and 2, does nothing to bring back the jobs, audiences, and media orgs they destroyed. to make matters worse, many still posit that it was never the public, but rather advertisers that preferred video over text, meaning that facebook intentionally deceived everyone involved specifically to secure more advertising dollars. so yeah, fb is evil and… probably should be stopped

vanityangel

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soberscientistlife

Bezos and Musk are not good people

markwateneymemorialcrater

And the solution isn’t their charity. It’s them paying their workers higher wages, and letting themselves be taxed fairly.

spacevixenmusic

Exactly. The problem is not that they *have* an absurd amount of money, it’s that they are deliberately *withholding* an absurd amount of money from the rest of the economy by simply sitting on it and jacking themselves off about how big their pile is. Meanwhile, the people who dictate how our economy works have decided - for absolute dogshit reasons - that we cannot just print more money to give people who don’t have enough, because that would make people like Musk and Bezos’ money “less valuable”, and that printing more money should cause the price of everything in our economy to increase “accordingly”, so that the “value” of the transaction remains the same. Do you see why this is dogshit, and why Bezos and Musk are objectively evil people.